REVIEW: Anne Carson - "Red Doc>"

Cape Poetry, 2013, 164pp.

Anne Carson it says. 
Red letters on the 
envelope. One hundred 
sixty and something 
pages flowing like 
ice / no not ice / 
flowing like red mist
/ better / in this 
album. Prose or poetry
is what I am asking 
myself. One look 
betrays her intent. 

A full-fledged story
indeed. Made up in
the weirdest stanzas. 
But nonetheless quite 
lovely he said it 
flows nicely on the 
page and in my head 
the echoes form a 
cacophonous sonorous 
sound of Stille ja 
silence immer wieder 
und doch he said und 
doch wirklich lesbar 
das Ganze ja. 

References 
are going all over 
the world but linger 
in Ancient Greece 
yes myths and mythology 
and Prometheus and oh 
Proust as well not 
Greek he is not but 
French might as well 
talk about Proust 
and memory and 
remembering the 
glacier and the life
and how it smelt in 
there. The oxen fly 
to Batcatraz. Asylum 
and Labyrinth is that 
Borges or just another 
allusion to what / I 
don’t know / yes it 
is / if you say so / 
I do / But / What / 
Nothing / What about 
Cézanne / French 
painter Cézanne / Yes 
/ What about him / Ask 
Carson / Will do he 
said and retreated. 
Bearded flying icebats 
oxen no musk ox especially 
Io who is of course 
nymph seduced by Zeus 
or G or Sad But Great 
but we don’t know and 
Ida yes Ida is also a 
part of the whole 
lovely Ida with her 
nicht vorhandenem 
Orientierungssinn quite 
lovely yes. 

In the end. One of 
the best prose poetry 
proetry books I read yes. 
Especially this she wrote 
Carson wrote on page one 
hundred fourteen “what is 
the difference between 
poetry and prose you know 
the old analogies prose 
is a house poetry is a 
man in flames running 
quite fast through it” 
yes best passage to 
describe Red Doc> and 
read it / yes / read it 
he said.

★★★★★


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